Java would finally shed its Java Applet API under an OpenJDK proposal created December 4.. The JDK Enhancement Proposal notes that the API not only has been deprecated for removal for some time ...

To the uninitiated, it may have seemed like another damning headline from Oracle, intimating another nail in the coffin of the Java programming language. To the informed enthusiasts who have defended ...

The Java Applet API will be still there in the next release of the Java Development Kit (JDK), which is slated for general availability some time in 2017 but after that the Applet API from the JDK ...

If you're on Mac OS X, choose either "Java Plug-in 2 for NPAPI Browsers" or "Java Applet Plugin" and click the Disable button. It's also advised to disable the Java Development Toolkit plugin as well.